Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [noun] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Use a ridge-filler to even out nails , act as a base coat for polish or simply give nails a chic natural-looking gloss . |
| 2 | The court is always reluctant to find a provision void for uncertainty , particularly where the provision is contained in a commercial agreement . |
| 3 | Bessie Parkes , a committee member , bought a printing-press and , after becoming familiar with its work , Emily Faithfull decided to open a printing office for women compositors , engaging Austin Holyoake , the brother of George Jacob Holyoake [ q.v. ] , to advise her . |
| 4 | It was Mr Florio , elected in 1989 , who floated himself as a trial balloon for Clintonomics . |
| 5 | Home Office officials from Britain went to West Palm Beach to see how electronic tagging systems are working there before introducing a trial run for people on probation in Nottingham later this year . |
| 6 | To focus potentially massive public attention , these experimental matches could also serve as a trial base for TV assistance for umpires in run-outs and stumpings. — ED . |
| 7 | In a surprise move on Jan. 17 Judge Hoeveler stated that he wanted to bring the Noriega case to trial " very quickly " , and set a trial date for March 5 . |
| 8 | The surgeries at Crook , Peterlee , Consett and Chester-le-Street reopened 16 months ago on a trial basis for half-a-day each week . |
| 9 | As an example of the iterative solution method , suppose that we start with a trial value for rm of r 1 = 12 per cent and plug this into the right-hand side of the above equation . |
| 10 | ChemIntosh is a sister program for use on Apple Macs . |
| 11 | And , as mentioned colleagues , there is to be a bucket collection for Swan Hunters at lunch time . |
| 12 | At the time of writing , a cable link is only available for Brother 930 , 940 and 950i machines , but it is expected that Version 5 will support a cable link for Silver Reed electronics . |
| 13 | William Thomson , later Lord Kelvin , was elected to the chair of Natural Philosophy at Glasgow in 1846 at the age of twenty-two , and organized there a physics laboratory for students . |
| 14 | New Testbooks : Two new books of tests covering Starting Out and Getting On with one test per chapter and a Progress Chart for students to keep . |
| 15 | Plasma , a CASE tool for Cobol originally only available in Japanese from its developer , Computer Applications Co , is now being offered in English , German and Chinese by Munich , Germany-based InterFace Computer GmbH and its Hong Kong-based subsidiary : Plasma takes Cobol code as its input and automatically generates a graphical overview of it . |
| 16 | It could become a money spinner for farmers looking for alternative crops in the face of expected cutbacks in EC farm support prices . |
| 17 | You are entitled to a money refund for breach of contract . |
| 18 | At the lasts two A.G.M. 's of the parent body , the Hong Kong Branch has failed to comply with the constitution in that they have not submitted a Branch Report for consideration by the A.G.M. The chairman of Standing Committee has subsequently written to the Branch on several occasions reminding them of the need to submit a report and so far , has not received a reply . |
| 19 | Exuberantly believing that he alone was responsible for the separation and still moved by a powerfully purifying sense of goodness and rightness , Hope paid his modest bill the next morning , left a parting note for George , checked himself from asking to see Mary , promised — though he lied — to return and set off at a tremendous pace for Hause Point . |
| 20 | They were stalked by gunman John Clarke at a fundraising event for Alder Hey Children 's Hospital at which Russell Grant appeared as the celebrity guest . |
| 21 | Thus , " ? " provides a direction replacement for PEEK and POKE . |
| 22 | Although this may well be a valuable facility , it really forms no more than an appendage to the database , since we can not search a videodisc image for details within it in the way we can search text . |
| 23 | The national research project resulted in the publication of New Directions : A Curriculum Framework for Students with Severe Learning Difficulties in early 1988 ( Dee 1988 ) . |
| 24 | There is also a Curriculum Council for Wales . |
| 25 | It empowered the Secretary of State to prescribe a common curriculum ( to be called the national curriculum ) for pupils of compulsory school age in maintained schools ( for details , see Chapter 10 ) , to set attainment targets for each of its constituent subjects at the ages of 7 , 11 , 14 and 16 , and to make arrangements for assessing how well these are met ; established a National Curriculum Council ( for England ) and a Curriculum Council for Wales to oversee the implementation and assessment of the national curriculum ; required LEAs , school governors and head teachers to ensure that the national curriculum is taught in all maintained schools . |
| 26 | That was reinforced in a subsequent circular to LEAs later in 1981 and two years later Circular 8/83 sought a progress report from LEAs on the formation of a curriculum policy for pupils of all abilities and aptitudes . |
| 27 | Like Peters and Waterman ( 1982 ) , she emphasizes the need for top executives to establish a few clear signals in order to create a felt need for change , and to use ‘ prime movers ’ in the organization both to ‘ talk up ’ the new strategy and to ensure that the signals or symbols developed to establish the new direction are present in all important interactions — i.e. reflected in reports , agenda for meetings , key events , and so on . |
| 28 | Client pressure ( eg. complaints from members of the public ) creates a felt need for defensibility of individual actions , which in turn encourages further rigidity of behaviour . |
| 29 | Like the earlier book , Style in Fiction was intended as a course book for students , but it was also an attempt to develop a theory of prose style . |
| 30 | He showed us the shewanakoo , a teaching tree for shamans that menstruating women must not pass . |